Sr. Cost Accountant Manager – CDD Operations

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, and develop a global team
• Execute regular tasks relating to the monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial close process including journal entry approvals, reconciliation review and approvals and P&L reporting.
• Support technical accounting issues related to the month end and quarter end financial close and understand the accounting impact of proposed transactions to ensure GAAP is maintained.
• Become adept in data reporting and analytics from ERP systems, G/L, GLA, SPoT, Cognos and PLN. Use this skill set to support the Sr. Managers and the Finance Director in reporting and cost roll data analysis.
• Serve as the project manager for the Divisional global cost roll. Lead communications and coordination at each stage gate, serving as the key point of contact for cost roll questions.
• Support each site controller in data consolidation, division communication, and reporting during the cost roll.
• Lead your team to execute the cost roll, and E&O reserves in understanding, reporting and explaining inventory revaluation and the offset for capitalized manufacturing variances.
• Manage purchase price updates, labor & OH rate calculations and allocation spread.
• Interface with different functions and effectively communicate with all levels of employees within the company and demonstrate judgment, tact, and diplomacy when dealing with internal and external customers.
• Prepare, review, and present financial schedules such as fluxes, absorption tests, excess capacity analysis, month-end reports, accounting memos, and other ad hoc schedules, as needed.
• Strong written, presentation, and interpersonal skills required; must be able to present financial information in a meaningful, understandable way.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment, meeting deadlines in an accurate and timely manner; must be detail oriented.
• Support the annual physical inventories and cycle count programs at each site.
• Support periodic audits of bills of materials.
• Drive standardized daily/weekly metrics reporting for inventory scrap, materials usage, and purchase price variances.
• Generate daily production volumes reports (standard hours/units).

Qualifications

• Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience in cost accounting or finance, with proven leadership experience in manufacturing environments.
• Preferred Fields of Study: Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related business field.
• CPA or CMA preferred.
• Strong expertise in cost accounting principles, GAAP, and financial analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards) and financial applications (Excel, PowerBI, HFM/CMR).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams.
• Excellence in financial forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and root cause interpretation.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to handle large datasets and deliver accurate reporting.
• Effective communication and presentation abilities to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in leading month-end close processes, standard costing, and inventory management.
• Demonstrated success in identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Strong business partnering skills with ability to work cross-functionally.
• Self-directed with excellent organizational and time management capabilities.
• Travel may be required.
• Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry preferred.